Viewing and Maintaining a History List
Sometimes you run across a great Web site and simply forget to add it to your Favorites list. With Internet Explorer there’s no need to try to remember all the sites you visit. The History feature keeps track of where you’ve been by date, site, most visited, or order visited today. To view the History list, click the History button in the Favorites Center, and then click a day or week in the pane to expand the list of Web sites visited. Because the History list can grow to occupy a large amount of space on your hard drive, it’s important to control the length of time you retain Web sites in the list. Internet Explorer deletes the History list periodically, based on the settings you specify.
View and Change the History List
Click the Favorites Center button on the toolbar.
Click the History button.
To change the history view, click the History button arrow, and then select the view option you want.
If view By Date, click a week or day to expand or compress the list of Web sites visited.
If necessary, click the folder for the Web site you want to view, and then click a page within the Web site.
Click off the pane or click the Close button.
Clear the History List
Click the Tools button, and then click Delete Browsing History.
You can also open this dialog by clicking Delete on the General tab in the Internet Options dialog box.
Click Delete History, and then click Yes to confirm the operation.
Click Close.
Change the Number of Days Pages Are Saved
Click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.
Click the General tab.
In the Browsing history section, click Settings.
Specify the total number of days you want to keep links listed in history.
Click OK.
Click OK.